Hope – A Life Essential

At times we skirt the barren periphery of hopelessness. And having found ourselves at such precarious outliers, we begin to abandon a sense that we can somehow find our way back to anything that bears any imprint of hope. Such moments leaving us grieving the life we’re living because we see no rational for living it, for without hope all of life falls into the perilous abyss of meaninglessness.

The issue is not hope. Rather, it is from that which we draw our hope. Hope in its many diluted and limp forms can be drawn in abundance from many places. And because these pathetic forms are readily available, we readily gorge ourselves on them. This edition outlines the hard yet redeeming reality that few things hold sufficient hope for us to stand when the full force of life rails against us, and it suggests where that hope might be found.